NURS 470 - Community Public Health Nurs

3 Credit Hours
Emphasis is on the knowledge and skills required to practice community/public health nursing within the context of population health. The student begins to examine the expanding focus of the nursing process in the various roles of the community/public health nurse with attention to holistic nursing appropriate for optimal community and population health outcomes. The significance of primary, secondary and tertiary levels of prevention and implementing health promotion activities for individuals, families, communities, and population aggregates are addressed. Various environmental, ethical, cultural, legal, financial issues related to quality and safety and community/public/population health are explored. Student must have minimum 2.7 cumulative GPA.

Prerequisites: NURS360 and NURS361 and NURS370 and NURS374 and NURS375 and NURS376 and NURS377

Co-requisites: NURS471

Course Attributes: Population Health

Levels: Graduate Undergraduate

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